When photographing the places that inspire him, Maciej Kuszela also tries to emphasize the personal nature of this inspiration. Therefore, the final form of these images is usually the result of various additional manipulations, which may be surprising when juxtaposed with the fact that the term "photojournalist" appears so often in the author's biography. However, it is understandable that when a photograph is created out of a purely personal need, it...
Writing that Wojciech Zawadzki was a great photographer is the same truism as writing that a great poet was, for example, a certain Slovakian. This everyone knows.Like any "seriousness," Wojciech Zawadzki continues to have an impact even after his death, which came for him in 2017. Less than five years later, to be exact, from February 8 to March 18, 2022, in the extraordinary...
Many Polish photographers after World War II until now have been trying to tackle one of the most difficult subjects of Polish reality - Silesia. How to present its synthetic vision, and above all the people and their problems, as well as the degraded environment and architecture?Such an attempt was also made by Jerzy Wierzbicki, who had already faced the subject of...
This article had a chance to go down in the history of "Fotografia Quarterly" as interesting and beautiful, but it passed only as interesting. Its protagonist, Tomasz Gudzowaty, sent a dozen of his beautiful photographs to the editorial office, but at the same time asked for the text of the article, which was written by Renata Gluza, then a journalist for the monthly magazine "Press". And it began...- You'd better not show him the article before....
Waldemar Sliwczynski is known for his affection for photography, mainly through his self-published "Fotografia Quarterly". In fact, we met at the birth of the magazine, in the creation of which I decided to join, and this joint adventure continues to this day.Sliwczynski is a rare photography enthusiast who took the risk - including financial - of creating an ambitious magazine for connoisseurs....
